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Poll: The public wants compromise on the fiscal cliff

According to the poll, a combined 68 percent of Americans say that the fiscal cliff – the looming combination of tax increases and spending cuts set to take place at the beginning of next year if nothing is done – is either a “very serious” or “fairly serious” problem.

A similar two-thirds of respondents are willing to accept an increase in taxes or cuts in federal government programs they care about to reach an agreement to avoid the problem.

Asked another way, 65 percent say leaders in Congress should find a compromise to reduce the budget deficit, even if that means Democrats would need to accept targeted spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and that Republicans would need to accept targeted increases in tax rates.

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In other words the WH memo went out to NBC to cook up some polls to distract Boehner’s and McConnell’s fragile egos and vanities to “compromise” away from doing that which would be fiscally essential which is to cut spending instead of always feeding the Marxist monster more hoping it will go away.

“The public” is who votes for the House. If the Republicans attempt to play a game of chicken with this and dig in their heels and we go over the cliff without a deal, the Republicans are going to be blamed and they will lose the House in 2014. Worrying about replacing Boehner will be small potatoes because the Democrats will have the House if the Republicans refuse to make a compromise here.

Right now Boehner is offering the Democrats exactly what the majority of the voters want and the Democrats are digging in their heels. If we go over the cliff as things stand today, the Democrats get the blame, not the Republicans. It’s the Democrats playing “chicken” with the economy at this point.

The federal reserve announced it will monetize 85 billion dollars a month, a trillion dollars next year.

As if the piddly amounts in the cliff matter. Our public can’t get past the celebrity culture and non-issues to see the real fiscal cliff coming from all the deficits and debt. We have idiots in power on both sides of the aisle. There is no recovering from the amount of leverage we are all on the hook for.

The ‘public’ are by a large a bunch of idiots who haven’t the foggiest notion of what the fiscal cliff is and to whom the word ‘compromise’ is a sort of meaningless magic mantra (kind of like ‘moderate’). Of course they want compromise. COmpromise sounds nice. Compromise sounds, moderate and calm. Compromise sounds like something no one could possibly be against.

Compromise sounds reasonable, like Obama saying, “I think the (unnamed and unknown ‘rich person with whom none of us has a personal relationship) should pay a little more.” Of course that sounds reasonable, because this unknown unnamed rich person isn’t you and whoever he is, surely he wouldn’t mind paying a little more.

Asked another way, 65 percent say leaders in Congress should find a compromise to reduce the budget deficit, even if that means Democrats would need to accept targeted spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and that Republicans would need to accept targeted increases in tax rates.

Well of course! Nobody ever thinks their group is in the targeted group whose pet entitlement is cut, or the targeted group whose taxes will be raised.

As a single white male with no children, non-homeowner, who makes enough to live, but would be strained to take on any new debt (new car – Cash for Clunkers, any of the tax credits for new, energy efficient appliances, etc.) I’m still waiting to find out when I’m going to be in the target for relief. Besides the targeted group for having my money stolen, that is.

Reid & company have not balanced the budget for how many years?
And the demoncrats refused to deal with this in any way during the reelection of Barrack Hussein Obama.
Not to mention the fact the the MSN was not interested in talking about his crap economy, let alone the so called “fiscal cliff”until the day after the election.
So … why is this suddenly important to them now?
Oh yeah, because it confirms that socialism is the reason for the so called “fiscal cliff” and this fact cannot be hidden by historical revisionists. Especially in the age of the internet.

We already went over a fiscal cliff.
And Americans are not serious about any of this anyway.
No one is willing to make themselves an example & stock the teat sucking.
They complain about everybody else’s teat sucking, but suck alongside them.
It’s ridiculous.
As long as the Federal government is TAXING people for Social Security & Medicare, you’ll never stop any of this.
The Federal govt has no power that says they have the right to confiscate our money to pay it in retirement benefits to others.
This is such a scam.
And they will come after private retirement accounts.
I’m counting on it.